Medium severity · published Aug 6, 2026
CVE-2026-70629
FFmpeg 3.0 < 9.0 Uninitialized Heap Memory Read in RSCC Decoder
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
FFmpeg versions from 3.0 up to, but not including, 9.0 contain an uninitialized heap memory read vulnerability in the native RSCC decoder (libavcodec/rscc.c) that allows attackers to disclose heap memory contents by supplying a crafted video file with a compressed tile that decompresses fewer bytes than the declared tile geometry requires. When rscc_decode_frame() calls av_image_copy_plane() without validating the decompressed byte count against the tile dimensions, the unwritten suffix of the persistent intermediate buffer ctx->inflated_buf is copied into the decoded frame, potentially exposing data from prior heap allocations or previous decoded frames in persistent decoding services.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 7% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FF
FFmpeg · FFmpeg
3.0 before 9.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-70629
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-70629
Patch
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/533a6198505edd1379e1cd722852350ae4a85acc
Patch
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/a5fe21a1a410a680fe93c33b0dd696b7e1c3aea4
Patch
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/cd1f545cf27ba08f6f5b31b1e92665d7874d4fd7
Issue Tracking
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23895
Patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-uninitialized-heap-memory-read-in-rscc-decoder
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